Region Building In Southern Africa

Author : Chris Saunders
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1780321813
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Region-Building in Southern Africa written by Chris Saunders and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How successful have Southern African states been in dealing with the major issues that have faced the region in recent years? What could be done to produce more cohesive and effective region-building in Southern Africa? In this original and wide-ranging volume, which draws on an interdisciplinary team of mainly African and African-based specialists, the key political, socio-economic, and security challenges facing Southern Africa today are addressed. These include the various issues confronting the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and its institutions; such as HIV/AIDS, migration and xenophobia, land-grabbing and climate change; and the role of the main external actors involved with the region, including the United Nations, the European Union, the United States, and China. The book also looks at the Southern African Customs Union and Southern African Development Finance Institutions, including the Development Bank of Southern Africa and Industrial Development Corporation, and issues of gender and peacebuilding. In doing so, the book goes to the heart of analyzing the effectiveness of SADC and other regional organisation, suggesting how region-building in Southern Africa may be compared with similar attempts elsewhere in Africa and other parts of the world.

Author : Christopher C. Saunders
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781350222212
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Region-building in Southern Africa written by Christopher C. Saunders and published by . This book was released on with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pt. 1. Historical legacy -- pt. 2. Governance and military security -- pt. 3. Economic integration -- pt. 4. Human security -- pt. 5. External actors.

Author : Daniel H. Levine
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137586117
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Region-Building in Africa written by Daniel H. Levine and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-05-19 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This landmark book is the first of its kind to assess the challenges of African region-building and regional integration across all five African sub-regions and more than five decades of experience, considering both political and economic aspects. Leading scholars and practitioners come together to analyze a range of entwined topics, including: the theoretical underpinnings that have informed Africa's regional integration trajectory; the political economy of integration, including the sources of different 'waves' of integration in pan-Africanism and the reaction to neo-liberal economic pressures; the complexities of integration in a context of weak states and the informal regionalization that often occurs in 'borderlands'; the increasing salience of Africa's relationships with rising extra-regional economic powers, including China and India; and comparative lessons from non-African regional blocs, including the EU, ASEAN, and the Southern Common Market. A core argument of this book, running through all chapters, is that region-building must be recognized as a political project as much as if not more than an economic one; successful region-building in Africa will need to include the complex political tasks of strengthening state capacity (including states' capacity as 'developmental states' that can actively engage in economic planning), resolving long-standing conflicts over resources and political dominance, improving democratic governance, and developing trans-national political structures that are legitimate and inclusive.

Author : Leon Mwamba Tshimpaka
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811593884
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Regional Economic Communities and Integration in Southern Africa written by Leon Mwamba Tshimpaka and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-05-07 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines regional integration in Africa, with a particular focus on the Southern African Development Community (SADC). It argues that the SADC’s pursuit of a rationalist and state-centric form of integration for Southern Africa is limited, as it overlooks the contributory role and efficacy of non-state actors, who are relegated to the periphery. The book demonstrates that civil society networks in Southern Africa constitute well-governed, self-organised entities that function just like formal regional arrangements driven by state actors and technocrats. The book amplifies this point by deploying New Institutionalism and the New Regionalism Approach to examine the role and efficacy of non-state actors in building regions from below. The book develops a unique typology that shows how Southern African regional civil society networks adopt strategies, norms and rules to establish an efficient form of alternative integration in the region. Based on a critical analysis of this self-organised regionalism, the book projects the reality that alternative regionalism driven by non-state actors is possible. This book expands the study of regionalism in the SADC, and makes a significant and innovative contribution to the study of contemporary regionalism.

Author : Mr.Joannes Mongardini
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
ISBN 13 : 1475527578
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Building a Common Future in Southern Africa written by Mr.Joannes Mongardini and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2013-04-05 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Southern African Customs Union (SACU) is the oldest customs union in the world, with significant opportunities ahead for creating higher economic growth and increased welfare benefits to the people of the region, by fulfilling its vision to become an economic community with a common market and monetary union. This volume describes policy options to address the barriers to equitable and sustainable development in the region and outlines a plan for deeper regional integration.

Author : Richard A. Griggs
Publisher : IBRU
ISBN 13 : 1897643373
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Boundaries, Borders and Peace-building in Southern Africa written by Richard A. Griggs and published by IBRU. This book was released on 2000 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dele Olowu
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319206427
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book State Fragility and State Building in Africa written by Dele Olowu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-10-19 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the contrast between the strong economic growth and democratization that have occurred in Africa and its stalling political progress. It presents and discusses fragility as the phenomenon that has caused the state to remain weak and faltering and has led to at least one third of the continent’s citizens living in fragile states. Following the examination of the drivers of fragility and the impact of fragility on citizens and neighbouring states, the book discusses capacity building approaches. This part shows how effective states can be built on the African continent, a process that would result in a change from state fragility to state resilience. It is based on lessons learnt from close studies of the nations where the state has been most developed in the region, in Eastern and Southern Africa. The book provides and responds to the most recent and up-to-date information on African development and uses insights of people who have lived and worked in the continent for most of their lives.

Author : Peter Batchelor
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429838301
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Demilitarisation and Peace-Building in Southern Africa written by Peter Batchelor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-17 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2004 , this work is based on a collaborative research project, this trilogy considers the dynamics of demilitarisation and peace-building in southern Africa in the aftermath of major violent conflicts. The overall aim of the research is to support and facilitate the achievement of sustainable peace and human development in southern Africa, by analysing demilitarisation and peace-building processes in the region and identifying policy options and interventions for peace-building. The central focus of the research is the extent to which demilitarisation following the termination of wars has contributed to broad processes of peace-building in the affected region. Has the military in southern Africa downsized and refocused towards new roles? Has there been a 'peace-dividend', allowing more investment in economic and human development, thereby dealing with some of the root causes of conflict? Volume I provides a conceptual framework for the analysis of demilitarisation and peace-building processes, applicable particularly in the southern Africa context. This volume argues that a broad concept of peace-building has to take into account economic, political, social and cultural factors, at the local, national and regional level.

Author : Southern African Development Community
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book A Framework and Strategy for Building the Community written by Southern African Development Community and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780263740714
Total Pages : 475 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Nesa Gschwend written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zwei Flyer und ein Faltblatt zu den Ausstellungen "Nesa Gschwend, my Body, my Place" (2010) und "Nesa Gschwend, Red Strings through my Hands" (2010-2011); eine Ansichtskarte an René Schmalz (2005).